This Week in Blogging, Sept. 12
Stories affecting both of Missouri’s statewide races originated on blogs last week.
First, someone let local blogger PubDef into a meeting between Claire McCaskill and influential Democratic leaders, and the site posted comments McCaskill made to the assembled group. The reporting of McCaskill’s behind-closed-doors comments put her campaign on the defensive.
On Friday, Dave Drebes of the Arch City Chronicle taught campaigns the meaning of “File: Properties.” Witness the viral nature of today’s political communication: From the original link to an observant blogger, to another blogger, picked up and packaged into a press release by a political party, then finally covered by the traditional news media (which, in turn, failed to cite Drebes as the origin of the story). All this within a matter of hours.
On the national level, MSNBC began its partnership with National Journal last week. As far as I know, this arrangement — between a powerful television network and an influential blog network — is the first of its kind. The results are impressive.
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